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Fish


Definition:

  • (n.) A counter, used in various games.
  • (pl. ) of Fish
  • (n.) A name loosely applied in popular usage to many animals of diverse characteristics, living in the water.
  • (n.) An oviparous, vertebrate animal usually having fins and a covering scales or plates. It breathes by means of gills, and lives almost entirely in the water. See Pisces.
  • (n.) The twelfth sign of the zodiac; Pisces.
  • (n.) The flesh of fish, used as food.
  • (n.) A purchase used to fish the anchor.
  • (n.) A piece of timber, somewhat in the form of a fish, used to strengthen a mast or yard.
  • (v. i.) To attempt to catch fish; to be employed in taking fish, by any means, as by angling or drawing a net.
  • (v. i.) To seek to obtain by artifice, or indirectly to seek to draw forth; as, to fish for compliments.
  • (v. t.) To catch; to draw out or up; as, to fish up an anchor.
  • (v. t.) To search by raking or sweeping.
  • (v. t.) To try with a fishing rod; to catch fish in; as, to fish a stream.
  • (v. t.) To strengthen (a beam, mast, etc.), or unite end to end (two timbers, railroad rails, etc.) by bolting a plank, timber, or plate to the beam, mast, or timbers, lengthwise on one or both sides. See Fish joint, under Fish, n.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Both the vitellogenesis and the GtH cell activity are restored in the fish exposed to short photoperiod if it is followed by a long photoperiod.
  • (2) Roadford Lake with over 730 acres for watersports, fishing and birdwatching plus paths and bridleways.
  • (3) External exposures to a contaminated fishing net and fishing boat are considered pathways for fishermen.
  • (4) Two fully matured specimens were collected from the blood vessel of two fish, Theragra chalcogramma, which was bought at the Emun market of Seoul in May, 1985.
  • (5) The telencephalon of teleost fish shows high affinity uptake for D-[3H]aspartate, intermediate levels of GABAergic markers and low levels of cholinergic enzymes.
  • (6) The authors present the first results on the utilization of fish infusion (IFP) as a basic medium for the cultivation of bacteria.
  • (7) In telecost fishes, the corpuscles of Stannius contain Bowie-stainable granules and a renin-like pressor substance.
  • (8) Fish were trained monocularly via the compressed or the normal visual field using an aversive classical conditioning model.
  • (9) Alternatively, try the Hawaii Fish O nights, every Friday from 26 July until the end of August, featuring a one-hour paddleboard lesson, followed by a fish-and-chip supper looking out over the waves you've just battled (£16.75).
  • (10) Small and medium fish swim up when stressed, whereas larger fish swim down.
  • (11) Macron hit back on Twitter, saying her proposals to take France out of the EU would destroy France’s fishing industry.
  • (12) Careless Herbicidal aerial spray of a field for weed control and defoliation of cotton before machine picking, resulted in the contamination of an adjoining reservoir, killing large volume of fish.
  • (13) The function of these triple cones can not be deduced from the behavior patterns of these fishes.
  • (14) Both fatty acid composition and the degree of lipid peroxidation were measured in this study in 23 OTC fish oil preparations.
  • (15) The possibility of mammalian mitochondria functioning in fish embryos has been studied.
  • (16) Instead, they say, we should only eat plenty of lean meat and fish, with fruit and raw vegetables on the side.
  • (17) The nerve endings in the heart of fishes were studied using silver impregnation techniques.
  • (18) As for fish attractiveness, motion, freshness, size, color and species were found as important parameters in the food-preference mechanism.
  • (19) Interest in the antithrombotic potential of diets enriched with fish oil-derived polyunsaturated fatty acids (omega-3 PUFAs) prompted us to examine how these fatty acids, when taken preoperatively, affect hemostasis, plasma lipid levels, and production of prostacyclin (PGI2) by vascular tissues in atherosclerotic patients undergoing coronary artery bypass graft surgery.
  • (20) The olfactory organs of fishes are diversely developed.

Ray


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To array.
  • (v. t.) To mark, stain, or soil; to streak; to defile.
  • (n.) Array; order; arrangement; dress.
  • (n.) One of a number of lines or parts diverging from a common point or center, like the radii of a circle; as, a star of six rays.
  • (n.) A radiating part of a flower or plant; the marginal florets of a compound flower, as an aster or a sunflower; one of the pedicels of an umbel or other circular flower cluster; radius. See Radius.
  • (n.) One of the radiating spines, or cartilages, supporting the fins of fishes.
  • (n.) One of the spheromeres of a radiate, especially one of the arms of a starfish or an ophiuran.
  • (n.) A line of light or heat proceeding from a radiant or reflecting point; a single element of light or heat propagated continuously; as, a solar ray; a polarized ray.
  • (n.) One of the component elements of the total radiation from a body; any definite or limited portion of the spectrum; as, the red ray; the violet ray. See Illust. under Light.
  • (n.) Sight; perception; vision; -- from an old theory of vision, that sight was something which proceeded from the eye to the object seen.
  • (n.) One of a system of diverging lines passing through a point, and regarded as extending indefinitely in both directions. See Half-ray.
  • (n.) To mark with long lines; to streak.
  • (n.) To send forth or shoot out; to cause to shine out; as, to ray smiles.
  • (v. i.) To shine, as with rays.
  • (n.) Any one of numerous elasmobranch fishes of the order Raiae, including the skates, torpedoes, sawfishes, etc.
  • (n.) In a restricted sense, any of the broad, flat, narrow-tailed species, as the skates and sting rays. See Skate.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The level of gadd45 mRNA increased rapidly after X rays at doses as low as 2 Gy.
  • (2) Pain is not reported in the removal area, the clinical examinations show identical findings on both patellar tendons, X-ray and ultrasound evaluations do not demonstrate any change in patellar position.
  • (3) Findings on plain X-ray of the abdomen, using the usual parameters of psoas and kidney shadows in the Nigerian, indicate that the two communities studied are similar but urinary calculi and urinary tract distortion are significantly more prominent in the community with the higher endemicity of urinary schistosomiasis.
  • (4) In the German Democratic Republic, patients with scleroderma and history of long term silica exposure are recognized as patients with occupational disease even though pneumoconiosis is not clearly demonstrated on X-ray film.
  • (5) A new type of Escherichia coli mutant which shows increased sensitivity to methyl methane sulfonate but not to UV light or to gamma rays was isolated after mutagenesis with N-methyl-N'-nitro-N-nitrosoguanidine.
  • (6) Thin films (OD approximately 0.7) of glucose-embedded membranes, prepared as a control, showed virtually 100% conversion to the M state, and stacks of such thin film specimens gave very similar x-ray diffraction patterns in the bR568 and the M412 state in most experiments.
  • (7) In 0.17 M Na+(aq), tRNA(Phe) exists in its native conformation and the number of strong binding sites (Ka greater than or equal to 10(4)) was estimated to be 3-4 by titration experiments, in agreement with X-ray structural data for crystalline tRNA(Phe) (Jack et al., 1977).
  • (8) Radiological findings on chest X-rays taken two weeks after BAI were evaluated according to Takeuchi's criteria.
  • (9) The intermandibularis is probably present only in electric rays.
  • (10) Carbopol-940 gels, being the best of those used, were studied further for the effect of its concentration and of additives (benzalkonium chloride, phenylmercuric nitrate, chlorbutol and disodium edetate), autoclaving at 121 degrees C for 30 min and irradiation with gamma rays (2.5 Mrad), on the end product.
  • (11) The X-ray tube rotates outside the detector array at the rate of one revolution per second.
  • (12) If this is what 70s stoners were laughing at, it feels like they’ve already become acquiescent, passive parts of media-relayed consumer society; precursors of the cathode-ray-frazzled pop-culture exegetists of Tarantino and Kevin Smith in the 90s.
  • (13) Chromosome aberrations were scored in BHK21 C13 Syrian hamster fibroblasts, exposed to 60Co gamma-rays, 250 kV X-rays, 15 MeV neutrons or neutrons of mean energy 2.1 MeV produced from the 9Be(d,n)10B reaction.
  • (14) The scatter measurement was made using a standard imaging geometry with both beam stops and an additional x-ray detector placed behind the standard imaging detector.
  • (15) Chest X-ray revealed multiple nodular lesions in both lung fields.
  • (16) The treatment group received 75 mg of roxatidine acetate hydrochloride at 9 PM and 12 to 13 hours later gastric juice secretion was measured with gastric x-ray films in both groups.
  • (17) All patients received an X-ray study of swallow at 3 months after the operation.
  • (18) Modifications in quaternary structure induced by variation of these physicochemical parameters were followed by means of X-ray and quasi-elastic light-scattering and quantified in terms of weight average molecular weight (M), radius of gyration (Rg) and hydrodynamic radius (Rh).
  • (19) Congenital defect of a cervical pedicle produces a rare clinical syndrome with a characteristic X-ray picture associated with vague clinical signs often accentuated after trauma.
  • (20) A chest X-ray examination showed a large mediastinal mass on the right.

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